Elements
Principles
Color
100

Groupings and combinations of shapes. 

What is form?

100

Decorative visual repetition. 

What is pattern?

100

Red, orange, yellow

What are warm colors? 

200

Path of a point moving in space.

What is line? 

200

Symmetrical arrangement of elements. 

What is balance?

200

Green, blue, violet.

What are cool colors? 

300

Square, circle, triangle, oval. 

What are shapes? 

300

Stressing one element or area 

What is emphasis?

300

Brightness of a color

What is intensity? 

400

Emptiness or areas between, around, above, below, or within objects. 

What is space?

400

Use of opposites. 

What is contrast? 

400

Dark values of a color 

What is shade? 
500

The way things look as they they might fell if they were touched. 

What is texture? 

500

Repetition of elements to create the illusion of movement. 

What is rhythm? 

500

Light values of a color

What is tint? 
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